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Middle East
The possible changes in the Middle East to watch for
Talmiz Ahmad During his first day in office, US President Joe Biden reversed visa restrictions that had been imposed on citizens of several Muslim countries by his predecessor, Donald Trump.…
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Middle East
Saudi Arabia decides to Saudize more professions
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia decided to Saudize 28 more professions in the air transport sector. It was announced by the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) on Tuesday.…
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World
US flies B-52 bombers over Middle East, evokes response from Iran
In what was described as “presence patrols” by the US Central Command (CENTCOM), the US once again flew US B-52H Stratofortress bombers over the Middle East on Sunday. This manoeuvre has…
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Middle East
Iran says Pfizer vaccine batch expected from US benefactors
Tehran: An unidentified group of U.S.-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, Iranian media reported Monday, in a step that could…
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Bollywood News
Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif set to shoot for Tiger 3 in Middle East
Mumbai: Ever since the sequel of Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif espionage thriller Tiger Zinda Hai has been announced, fans have been eagerly waiting for more details and updates about…
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Middle East
Bahrain’s long-serving prime minister dies at age 84
Dubai: Bahrain’s Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world’s longest-serving prime minister who led his island nation’s government for decades and survived the 2011 Arab Spring protests…
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Business
Middle East SWF’s in talks to buy stake in Reliance Retail
Mumbai: Middle East sovereign wealth funds, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Mudabala Investment and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), are in talks to buy stakes in Mukesh Ambani-led…
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Featured News
Oil-rich Kuwait is running out of cash!
Kuwait: In 2016, when Kuwait’s then Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh warned to cut down spending and prepare for life after oil, he was ridiculed by the petro-dollar rich population. Now, four…
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Top Stories
Hadaj well: Serving people from over 1200 years
Hyderabad: Tayma or Tema is located in the northwestern Saudi Arabia, 400 km north of Madinah and 260 km southeast of Tabuk. Evidences from the excavations of the city of…
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Middle East
100 killed, nearly 4K injured in Beirut blasts
Beirut: As many as 100 people were killed and nearly 4,000 injured in two huge explosions that rocked downtown Beirut, the Lebanese Red Cross said on Wednesday. The blasts took place…
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News
Saudi Arabia appoints women to serve female hajj pilgrims
Makkah: For the very first time Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and the Ministry of Civil Services had appointed women employees at its branches so as to offer the best…
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Top Stories
Tomb of Umar Bin Khattab’s great-grandson destroyed in Syria
Damascus: Militias fighting alongside the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad opened, burnt, and disappeared the grave of the eighth Umayyad Caliph Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz located in the north-west…
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NRIs Corner
100 Keralaites dead in Middle East from COVID-19
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While the Kerala model has been globally lauded for containing the COVID-19 disease, but expats from God’s own country settled in the Middle East have not been able to…
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News
India in damage control mode as Arab world is watching
NEW DELHI: The Hindu zealots spread of Islamophobia cast an evil shadow on the special relations between India and countries in the Middle East. Since the ‘well-crafted’ hate project to churn…
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News
We don’t need another Hitler, we need new Gandhi: UAE Princess
Abu Dhabi: Princess Hend Faisal Al Qassemi, a member of the United Arab Emirates royal family has been in front line to criticize over Islamophobic tweets by Indians in Dubai.…
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News
Hindutva has a cost, Middle-East Elite Remind India
Ajaz Ashraf One possible reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has belatedly cautioned the nation against communalising the Novel Coronavirus could be the flurry of anti-Hindutva tweets emanating from the…
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Middle East
Middle East braces for bleak Ramzan as virus threat lingers
Riyadh: From cancelled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the Middle East are bracing for a bleak month of Ramzan fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic…
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News
COVID-19 affects half of Middle East, over 12,000 cases recorded
Tehran: Middle East countries that are currently free from coronavirus include Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. United Arab Emirates (UAE) was the first Middle East country to report a coronavirus-positive case,…
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Middle East
Middle East: Coronavirus cases exceed 10000
Cairo: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the Middle East has exceeded 10,000, an alarming situation posed by the raging pandemic. Iran In the worst-hit Iran alone, the confirmed cases…
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World
Coronavirus spreads to new countries
Geneva: New coronavirus cases surged outside of China on Tuesday, leaving an Iranian deputy minister among the stricken and triggering mass disruption as a top health official warned the world…
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News
Coronavirus: Countries in Mid-East shut borders as scare spreads
Coronavirus has now spread to nine Middle Eastern countries, with more than 79,000 cases worldwide. Countries have now shut their borders with China and Iran in Mid-East as it records…
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Middle East
Four more Middle East nations report coronavirus cases
Dubai: The new coronavirus hit four more Middle Eastern states on Monday, with Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman reporting new cases and the UAE calling on its citizens not to…
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Middle East
Coronavirus spreads in Middle East
Baghdad: New coronavirus cases surged across the Middle East on Friday, after a rapid spread in Iran, where authorities say the death toll from the virus has hit four, prompting…
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Middle East
COVID-19 kills two Iranians, first fatalities in Middle East
TEHRAN: Two people have died in Iran after testing positive on Wednesday for the new coronavirus, the health ministry said, in the Islamic republic’s first cases of the disease. According to YJC…
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Middle East
Qatar welcomes Middle East peace plan, urges changes
Doha: Qatar responded cautiously Wednesday to US President Donald Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, saying it welcomed efforts to broker “longstanding peace” but warned that was unattainable without concessions to the…
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Pakistan
Middle East cannot afford war, says Pak FM Qureshi
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that rising tensions in the Middle East was not in anyone’s interest, adding that the region could not afford war.…
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World
Meant to cripple Iran’s clout, US strike unites its allies
BAGHDAD: The US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was meant to cripple Tehran’s clout in the Middle East, but analysts see the allies of the Islamic Republic closing rank…
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Japan approves plan to send forces to Middle East
Tokyo: Japan’s Cabinet on Friday endorsed a plan to send a Self-Defence Force (SDF) ship and aircraft to the Middle East in one of its biggest diplomatic efforts to ease…
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Pakistan
‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse to be visible across Middle East
Islamabad: An annular solar eclipse, said to be the last big celestial event of the year, will be visible across the Middle East, south-east Asia and Australia on Thursday. The…
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World
Pentagon denies US mulling 14,000 more troops for Middle East
Washington: The Pentagon on Wednesday denied a report that the United States was weighing sending up to 14,000 more troops to the Middle East in the face of a perceived threat from Iran. The Wall Street…
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